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Compared to the Linnaean system of classification, what is the advantage of classifying species into clades?

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clades show the evolutionary relationships between species.

Step-by-step explanation:

A clade is a term that is defined as organisms that share a derived character from a group that includes the most common ancestor and its descendants. Cladistics is a type of classification that is based upon phylogeny but does not show the historical event, and has no time scale. It is strictly monophyletic, and it produces a cladogram which shows all the evolutionary relationships among species and the evolutionary lineages split from common ancestors. The Linnaean classification system focuses on the physical traits of species, has a time scale.

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